Collette’s Art Direction: I envision floating elderly embryos, spaceships, and armed jungle animals before a crimson sky! Hmm… maybe we should put that in a small box on the cover, because now that I say it out loud, it sounds kind of crazy.Published 1971

This is by the great John Schoenherr, a Hugo winner best known for his illo’s and covers for the magazine serialisation of Dune in Analog and for Weyr Search, the first Pern story. I can only assume he was given specific instructions – his work is generally much better than this.